From his forthcoming album True Violet, co-produced by Nick Waterhouse and Paul Butler, Rayland Baxter has shared his new single, Bolly Plateau, a place anyone seeking escape and respite would envy. Baxter, a multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Bob Dylan and as a member of Steve Earle and The Dukes, shares:
“I refer to the hilltop on which I live as Bolly Plateau, my little cabin at the near end of a dead end street,” says Baxter. “It’s quiet up here. I wave to my neighbors and keep to myself, just like everyone else. And I go through the emotions mostly alone up here. Looking out to the street, I reminisce and I feel everything on Bolly Plateau. I sure am grateful to have this place. I write here and I dream here and I take it all in the best way I know how. Lately the reminiscing I’ve been doing is mostly focused on the last 5 years of my life and my transformation.”
While the album grew out of a solitary year in which he penned 70 songs, it is also about friendship, family, and collaboration, a positive lightness you can detect throughout Bolly Plateau.
The foundations of this album stem from dramatic change, re-evaluation, reckoning and reconciliation – a period of heavy touring while navigating difficult relationships, personal loss, and the death of his father, Bucky Baxter.
The album drops October 23rd via ATO Records.